JUST 60 seconds of exercise three times a week will make you fitter, Scots experts have found.

Researchers at Abertay University in Dundee say that three 60-second sessions of very short, intense sprints on exercise bikes improved the fitness of people studied in an experiment by more than 10 per cent in two weeks.

The study’s lead author, Dr John Babraj, said: “Anyone who’s been inspired by the Olympics to get fit, but thinks it’ll involve spending hours in the gym, could do 60 seconds of exercise three times a week and be much fitter and healthier in only a fortnight.”